U+A6BF "ꚿ" Bamum Letter Yoq Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A6BF "ꚿ" Bamum Letter Yoq is a character from the Bamum script, which was historically used to write the Bamum language of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon, Africa. This particular letter represents the sound "yoq," a syllable or phoneme in the language, and belongs to a richly ornate syllabary that evolved through several historical stages under the reign of King Njoya in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the cultural heritage of the Bamum script, enabling digital representation and accessibility for scholars and modern speakers working to revitalize the language.

General Properties

Code Point U+A6BF
Version Added 5.2
Name Bamum Letter Yoq
Block Bamum
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꚿ
HTML Hex Encoding ꚿ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9A 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA6BF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A6BF
C/C++/Java Escape \ua6bf

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Bamum
Script Extensions Bamum
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter